On the Election

I could not agree more.  Excellent piece.

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Masha Gessen

Syria

As in Rwanda, the world frets and worries and debates and threatens and denounces ad infinitum ad nauseum, while innocent people are being murdered by their own government.

President Obama, like the European leaders, has proven that he is one of those people who is incapable of true outrage against moral turpitude.

There are no heroes here, neither presently nor historically.

Turkey, while trying to broker a ceasefire, still refuses to admit to the murder of over one million Armenians and makes it a crime even to say it occurred.

After the communists took over in China more than 20 million people were murdered.  Under Stalin more than 20 million also were murdered.  Naturally, China and Russia are the strongest supporters of Syria although the ultimate honors go to Hezbollah and Iran.

How interesting that the people who detest Israel the most have little or nothing to say against Syria.

It's called "selective outrage."

Film Clips

Here are some clips from stage and film: Glengarry Glen Ross,

No Deposit No Return, Winds Way, The Final Resolution, I Did Her Wrong.

 

 

Glengarry Glen Ross Act ll Part One by alexanderbarnett2

The Eyes of Van Gogh

There is an updated trailer for my film The Eyes of Van Gogh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDePTHBah0

The Eyes of Van Gogh

Here is a new purchase option for the DVD of the film.  https://www.createspace.com/207068

Winterset

One of the first plays I did -- Maxwell Anderson's glorious Winterset -- has what may be my all-time favorite role: Mio Bartolomeo.  The play deals with the imagined aftermath of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Here is a still from the production. 

Alexander Barnett as Mio

Camera rehearsals for The Eyes of Van Gogh